This ahnentafel describes the persons
in index who are all in William's direct line ancestors up to Charlemagne
10 generations above him (where this study stops-See ahnentafel
Charlemagne for continuance) . As noted above, the
direct line Study down from Wm to our American Immigrants is provided
in seperated pages.

Like all genealogic studies, this effort is imperfect. The sources utilized
vary in their quality. I have tried to meticulously source each specific
entry for every single individual so that the reader can determine merit
of each detail offered for the persons presented, at times i merely made
notation of how someone might be googled, the various persons in this study
being found with many different AKAs depending on the country publishing
the work, or the reference point of the person speaking of them.
I have attempted to limit this study to historically sound persons with
rightful place in the pedigree, with specifics regarding their time frames,
etc, provided but sometimes less able to be solidly substantiated.

Any stregnth in this study is owed to the work of historians and genealogists
citing and evaluating primary reference material and / or scholarly secondary
sources. Most notably it is indebted to the many fine contributors
at SGM (soc.genealogy.medieval)
, the work of Stewart Baldwin and Tom Farmerie in their The
Henry Project , and Jim Stevens who mounts the Stevens/Southworth/Medieval
Database.

About the ahnentafel format. Ahnentafel's aredirect line
studies that are mathematically based and extend from a person UP through
their pedigree. Each entry is assigned a number. The root person
whose ascendancy is studied (in this case Wm the Conq) is asigned number
one. His father is assigned that number x 2 (and so number 2) and
his mother that number x2 +1 (and so number 3). That mathematical equation
is constant to the study; Person number 232 would be the father of a child
given the number 166, and would be the son of a man given number 464 ,
and a woman given number 465, and so on. As the lines fade and are unknown,
there is no higher rising number, for there is no corresponding person
for it. The entries are provided in generations up from the root person.
This program thankfully provides for an ascendancy link (
) that does not require the mathematical equation often necessitated in
an Ahnentafel study.

You GOTTA love a Mac. I do!!!!

Links
to a Few Outside Narrative-form Sources

There are accounts of the story of the Norman Dukes , their Duchy ,
and the famous Conqueror they bred, told in highly readable form and incorporating
the many legends and stories of their appetites, manners, reigns and times.
Several websites are involved in their transcriptions and ebook presentations.
They are a mix of truth and legend, incorporating much that can not be
proven, but giving rich description of the leaders, the major events of
their reigns, peoples with whom they struggled and the types of life and
villages the commoners experienced. They are also fine reading for the
young reader you might wish to engage in love of history. They include